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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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I am particularly interested in the recent light oil discovery in Bay Du Nord, located in the Flemish Pass Basin. It proves there is extractable oil in our province’s deep-water basins and it will encourage further deep-sea exploration activity; a project I would like to participate once I graduate.

I feel I might have misuse the semicolon
  

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I am particularly interested in the recent light - oil discovery in Bay Du Nord, located in the Flemish Pass Basin. It proves there is extractable oil in our province’s deep-water basins and it will encourage further deep-sea exploration activity , a project I would like to participate in once I graduate. I feel I might have misuse d the semicolon .

— Canadian45

  • I am particularly interested in the recent light - oil discovery in Bay Du Nord, located in the Flemish Pass Basin.
  • It proves there is extractable oil in our province’s deep-water basins and it will encourage further deep-sea exploration activity , a project I would like to participate in once I graduate.
  • I feel I might have misuse d the semicolon .
  • Yes, that semicolon is wrong, because what follows cannot stand as an independent clause.
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I am particularly interested in the recent light-oil discovery in Bay Du Nord, located in the Flemish Pass Basin. It proves there is extractable oil in our province’s deep-water basins and it will encourage further deep-sea exploration activity, a project I would like to participate in once I graduate.
I feel I might have misused the semicolon.
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Anonymousa project I would like to participate in once I graduate.
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Blue Jay Anonymousa project I would like to participate in once I graduate.
That was previously noted.
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canadian45That was previously noted.
I read your answer, but did not look at your quote of the original post. My mistake.
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